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ك ليبي عايش حاليا بحكم العمل بين ليبيا والجزائر وتونس في أخر سنتين، نقولك أنه من حقك تفتخر بتونس، لأنه أحسن بلد في الثلاثة في النظام وحسن استغلال للموارد والناس اللي تخدم بجدية.
علاش براود بربي تران يجي مخر بساعتين ويبدى يتدولش يمشي 20 كيلومتر في ساعة وهك التواليت الهيلة، الرجل هذا يسر متربي محبش ينقدنا، ركز كان على حاجة إيجابية كيفاش ناس تعملوا معاه
Tunisians are incredibly warm and helpful, and will go out of their way to assist you if you need help. In the two years we have been here I have grown to admire them greatly on a much deeper level than just those initial friendly and helpful impressions. Enjoy your travels!
I had the opportunity to be 2 month in Tunisia, helping prepare a boat to cross the Mediterranean. People are amazing, they will get really out of their way to help you. The villagers, that saw us work pretty hard on the boat, helped us so much: preparing us homemade snacks and tea, some organised a sardine barbecue on the port to present us their kids, they teached us a bit of arabic, and even gave us rides to the beach, the supermarket or other places around the villages that they wanted us to see. Incredible.
Your video is really good. You handle every problem or inconvenience that occurs so calmly, relaxed and politely. At the same time, the video is so informative and helpful for other travelers. Keep up the good work!
The funny thing is that he considers getting to Sfax as a journey to desert, while we (As Libyans) consider most of Tunisia as a lot greener country overall than the real desert (with a an exception of the tiny desert surrounding Borj Al-Khadra and Mareth)
Wow this series is great - I'm loving your anecdotal interactions with helpful Tunisian railway staff. I've been thinking about a solo trip across North Africa a lot recently but was unsure as to the feasibility so these videos are really helpful offering first hand insight into the ups and downs of this adventure. Keep up the good work!
Great vid - nicely shot and narrated. And what great customer service - that totally makes up for the inconveniences. Never seen a train report for Tunisia before!
These trains are in way better conditon than Albanian trains. Train from Elbasan to Plazh was without any lamps, many broken and open doors, completely broken windows (without glass, and trees come inside the train when you pass the bushes). Price is just 140LEK which is exactly 1,40€ and you are still in Europe. There will be soon day when in Albania they do reconstructions and new trains start to operate. They already are building new rails from Tirana to Durrës.
I lived and worked in the Middle East for 15 years on and off and was constantly amazed by the hospitality, delicious food, rich culture and language. Your vlog brings it all back again. Thank you 🙏
Your videos have gotten so much better over the years. I discovered this channel recently, so I've been watching the videos one by one, starting with the most recent ones. And I ended up with the most popular video from America, which just isn't nearly as good as your newer videos.
I really love your travel content. you have such a calm and insightful way of constructing your videos, it's really a joy to watch your adventures. I look forward to seeing your channel grow in the future, I know you're going to take off
I was just thinking about visiting Tunisia a few days ago, and now your video pops up. Perfect timing! I've been following you for years and love your content.
Being from southern France, Tunisia has been on my bucket list for a while, and I was actually doing research on their trains a few days ago. Needless to say, your video gave me a few concerns, but at least there will be no language barrier for me.
in my experience Tunisia is a indeed very chaotic in a lot of ways but the people are incredibly friendly and most of the time very eager to help, especially if youre a foreigner.. just dont expect everything to be a "Western" standard when it comes to reliability or punctuality... If had one person try to sell me an item for more than it actually was and some locals that stood in line with me got SO ANGRY at the guy.. i only speak pidgin french but even i understood that they were embarrassed by his behaviour.. 3 or 4 people spoke english and apologized for his behaviour profusely. And talking about late trains.. Im German so I expect trains to be late as a standard 😂
I've noticed this plenty of times in your travel videos, but am just getting around saying it. Your narrative is so captivating! You should write. And then write some more. Watching your videos and listening to you talk about the history of the places and your experiences is so enjoyable, so thank you!
I am Tunisian grew up between tunis and Montreal and In a couple of days I am doing a solo trip in Tunisia ! Pretty stressed and excited for it and gonna watch all your Tunisia videos for tips 😁
The colosseum of El Jem is amazing, looking forward to watching your video. I visited it earlier this year and I was literally the only foreign tourist there ! I loved Tunisia ❤
as a tunisian , i wannna say if anyone wants to visit tunisia feel free to reach out to me and ask for anything or any recommendations or advice you need ! i absolutely loved the video and the enthusiasm
I had been taking the train almost weekly in Tunisia more than ten years ago, as a student. I loved my trains trips, it was my preferable means of transport in Tunisia (more than the louage). I didn't feel unsafe, even as a girl. Though, I always took the first class and I never used (or thaught of using) the toilet in the train. Yes there were some delays specially bcz of strikes and big accidents. Trains can be overloaded even in 1st class specially in holidays. But overall it was easy. And back then, there were all new modern faster trains, I dont know the situation of those trains today. I still prefer the old ones if they took good care of them, hopefully. I really hope the situation of the railways in Tunisia gets better. As well as many other things.
Every time I went to Tunisia I rented a car, It's way better experience to drive around the country and explore at your oun speed without waiting for public transport, I loved every minute of Tunisia, such an amazing country ❤ Greetings from Libya.
Incredible video. Thanks so much for sharing! If you do end up spending a bit more time in El Djem, they have an incredible Roman Amphitheatre there that is more impressive than the Colosseum!
Love your storytelling and music choice to the footage. Its so calming and adds almost a meditative aspect to the video :D It really helps in romanticising the tips even more!
This makes me want to take this trip! Also, since we live in Germany, we are used to the train being late. Best to take a breath and go with the flow 😉 🚂
Not gonna lie the trains in Tunisia are disastrous, we didn't invest a dime in the rail infrastructure nor the rolling stock in 30 years. Did you notice that they were painfully slow? It's because the rails are poorly maintained. Anyway I'm glad you had fun. Hope you visit again.
yea, it seems like Tunisia’s budget is more focused on healthcare and education since its independence, but hopefully, things will get better, Tunisia has so much potential!
@@suzukauzumaki7560 healtcare and education are in the same state. They deserve it. They cheered their "revolution" for the sake of themselfs profitering. They all wanted a piece of the pie.
I always love these types of videos, they never fail to be entertaining-and also entertaining, how consistently you end up facing such weird situations lmao
Great video! You really captured what it is like travelling solo through Tunisia. If you really wanted to cross Tunisia, take the train from Tunis to Gabes. It takes you all the way south in 7+ hours and is a real experience I can say
Loved the video and narration! :) I had the exact same café car in egypt on the line between cairo and luxor and boy, was it in use!! (hoardes of guys smoking cigarettes and drinking beer), so you had the right hunch! I was lucky to be able to go there with an Egyptian lady who was my seat partner as a solo female traveler. Thinking about Tunisia next and of course will try the trains!
This level of care and customer service for foreigners reminds me of places like Brazil and Colombia. They really want to make their country feel as comfortable and safe as possible
Yes, I definitely want to visit Tunisia. We had a Tunisian exchange student live with us five years ago, and we loved her and her stories about Tunisia. No, I don’t want to take the train. I’m a soft, middle aged American, and my days of rough adventures are behind me. I’m glad the Tunisians took good care of you, and I thoroughly enjoyed the video (as always).
The way the people at the ticket counters looked out for you reminds me of my great aunt's story. She was a solo traveller in Tunisia and her plane home got cancelled. The airport ticket counter when she got to it was a mess of people shouting, trying to reschedule their flights. She stood at the back and thought there was no way she would ever get to the counter, so she walked away to go buy something to eat. Lo and behold, 35 minutes later an employee ran up to her and said "Madame, you have to get on the plane, they are waiting for you". The ticket counter people had seen this solo female traveller at the back and found her on the list of the cancelled flight and rebooked her to the next flight without her having to ask.
Lovely to hear about the kindness you got from locals. Recently I was in Morocco, travelling with an American woman I didn't know that well. She was gobsmacked by how kind, helpful and friendly everyone was as she'd heard she'd encounter distrust and active dislike. Everyone is kind (pretty much), I've found. Looking forward to your next adventure.
My mother and I traveled with a group through Tunesia, but due to schedule constraints we skipped the last few days on the beach and took a train from Gabès to Tunis by ourselves on Jan 1st, 2004. It may have been the same train cars back then. I had no problem getting tickets in French. Funny story: on the first day, the tour guide asked me for some help to include a trip with Le Lézard Rouge, a museum railway, into the schedule, which worked out great.
Seeing this as a Tunisian who's experienced it all in our public transportation and to be specific the trains 😂 I feel for you. I gotta say I admire how optimistic you were all while going through all that despite the heat of summer but well you're quite lucky since it wasn't very crowded I remember how I once had to sit in those gaps with a door open sandwiched between people along with my family of four we had to literally sit on our own bags in that little space and it was summer 😂 We were in sfax and the destination was to Tozeur (now there are no trains to there however) and it was so hot 😂 everyone were very angry since we also waited for about 2h just to end up with no seats that's why I've been more or less traumatised from using the trains so I rarely did 😅
@@thornton I'm glad it was it means things are maybe improving for the better ! Your vid kinda got me wanting to go for such an adventure as well! Truly inspiring!
Had to stand on a journey from Tuunis to Suussa in a hot very crowded railcar (and not a real long train). At least I could not fall down.... That was the worst journey by train in Tunisia.
Funny, 3 days ago i was also in Tunisia and ride alone with the train. It was one of the scariest things i did in my life. The train was delayed from Sousse for 5 hours and i arrived in Gabes nearly midnight. The ride was horrible but at one point, i tought i will made it and that made me really happy. Luckily my travel angency send me a car to Djerba. I arrived at the hotel at 3 AM and went to a saharatrip at 6 AM. I was so tired but also very delighted.
@@monkeychief-nk7se the ride was very loud and shaky. Maybe it was more in my thoughts, that i should be scared. Alone in the middle of the night in an foreign country. But at one point i was rethinking it and nothing bad will happen, that was a overwhelming feeling. The stuff on the train and the locals were also friendly
I visited Tunisia 30 years ago, and then I spoke fluent French and a bit of the wrong dialect of Arabic. The tourist guides have warnings about trains but a local told me that they're really about 1st class in the international trains, particularly going to Algeria. I never had any problems. I only rode Tunis to El Jem; I don't think the other lines carried tourists, then.
wish i could solo trip around tunisia too.. but as a woman and after my solo trip across some other countries around the region i'm probably not brave enough to do that again. in any case, always a treat to see there's a video from you on my feed, tom :D
@@monkeychief-nk7se morocco and algeria. had actually planned a short trip to tunisia, but a thing happened and i decided to go home instead. mind you, my solo trip before that to egypt was not without incident either... so i am all out of bravery to travel around the region on my own.
Tunisians are super friendly ppl Hope you did see the archelogical museum as well, its included in the arena ticket Only did sousse-El djem-tunis on this line, but the trains were on time all the time. The crazyest experience for me was taking a minibus and getting the ticket for that at kairouan minibus terminal My first open door trains were in Hungary on regional trains. Last time was in morocco. So I know how you are feeling.
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Thanks for watching! :) Let me know if you have any questions about this trip, in case you're planning your own one, and I'll see you very soon for my next adventure.
really should develop a backbone if you want to travel this way!
Thats actually amazing customer service from that ticket booth lady.
They were the best!
God Bless her!
Ya, you sure wouldn't get that in any Western country.
she was scared she would get in trouble for selling the ticket without a stamp !
As a Tunisian🇹🇳 this video makes me proud of my country
Same, family from Beja. Now living in uk
علش الفخر شئ يحشم
ك ليبي عايش حاليا بحكم العمل بين ليبيا والجزائر وتونس في أخر سنتين، نقولك أنه من حقك تفتخر بتونس، لأنه أحسن بلد في الثلاثة في النظام وحسن استغلال للموارد والناس اللي تخدم بجدية.
علاش براود بربي تران يجي مخر بساعتين ويبدى يتدولش يمشي 20 كيلومتر في ساعة وهك التواليت الهيلة، الرجل هذا يسر متربي محبش ينقدنا، ركز كان على حاجة إيجابية كيفاش ناس تعملوا معاه
تفتخر بالفقر والوسخ والزبلة ههههه تفتخر بقطار خردة و بطيئ و يجي روتار هههه يوريك الزبلة والبني الفوضوي من شبابك😂😂😂😂 افتخر افتخر مدام عباد مزالت تخمم كيفكم مستحيل نقدمو
The fact that you have been warned not to take the train but still takes it , you are a legend
By getting on a doorless train, you can say you got the complete Tunisian experience😂🙌
I am so much in love with tunesia, morocco, egypt...travelled a lot there solo, often by train and I met so many lovely and helpful people there :-)
Tunisians are incredibly warm and helpful, and will go out of their way to assist you if you need help. In the two years we have been here I have grown to admire them greatly on a much deeper level than just those initial friendly and helpful impressions. Enjoy your travels!
I love how you tell your stories and that's what sets your videos apart from every other travel channel. People are kind to you because you are kind.
I had the opportunity to be 2 month in Tunisia, helping prepare a boat to cross the Mediterranean. People are amazing, they will get really out of their way to help you. The villagers, that saw us work pretty hard on the boat, helped us so much: preparing us homemade snacks and tea, some organised a sardine barbecue on the port to present us their kids, they teached us a bit of arabic, and even gave us rides to the beach, the supermarket or other places around the villages that they wanted us to see. Incredible.
did you cross illegally?
You speak in such a positive note that made me excited about visiting Tunisia
Your video is really good. You handle every problem or inconvenience that occurs so calmly, relaxed and politely. At the same time, the video is so informative and helpful for other travelers. Keep up the good work!
The funny thing is that he considers getting to Sfax as a journey to desert, while we (As Libyans) consider most of Tunisia as a lot greener country overall than the real desert (with a an exception of the tiny desert surrounding Borj Al-Khadra and Mareth)
"Tunis al-Khudra'" 🙂
tunisian people are just so nice, had a chance to visit 10+ years ago and dreaming of going back
Wow this series is great - I'm loving your anecdotal interactions with helpful Tunisian railway staff. I've been thinking about a solo trip across North Africa a lot recently but was unsure as to the feasibility so these videos are really helpful offering first hand insight into the ups and downs of this adventure. Keep up the good work!
Thanks :)
Great vid - nicely shot and narrated. And what great customer service - that totally makes up for the inconveniences. Never seen a train report for Tunisia before!
These trains are in way better conditon than Albanian trains. Train from Elbasan to Plazh was without any lamps, many broken and open doors, completely broken windows (without glass, and trees come inside the train when you pass the bushes). Price is just 140LEK which is exactly 1,40€ and you are still in Europe. There will be soon day when in Albania they do reconstructions and new trains start to operate. They already are building new rails from Tirana to Durrës.
I lived and worked in the Middle East for 15 years on and off and was constantly amazed by the hospitality, delicious food, rich culture and language. Your vlog brings it all back again. Thank you 🙏
I love that you respect the middle east community but Tunisia is very north african 😅
@@seelim-3863 exactly why do people make such stupid comments
Sounds like a wonderful place to visit! People are what makes everything good.
good heart
Thanks for this wonderful report. Tunisia looks to be such a beautiful country.
Honestly your story telling is very catching, immersive and intriguing, keep em’ coming 🍺
Your videos have gotten so much better over the years. I discovered this channel recently, so I've been watching the videos one by one, starting with the most recent ones. And I ended up with the most popular video from America, which just isn't nearly as good as your newer videos.
🥹
Got lucky with the stamped travel ticket!
I really love your travel content. you have such a calm and insightful way of constructing your videos, it's really a joy to watch your adventures. I look forward to seeing your channel grow in the future, I know you're going to take off
Thanks for a really entertaining video. It's nice to see you travelling outside the comfort zone for most people and not only surviving but thriving.
I was just thinking about visiting Tunisia a few days ago, and now your video pops up. Perfect timing! I've been following you for years and love your content.
Your videos are honestly really enjoyable. And respect for constantly going out of your comfort zone, in every video. Awesome 🤟🏼
Being from southern France, Tunisia has been on my bucket list for a while, and I was actually doing research on their trains a few days ago. Needless to say, your video gave me a few concerns, but at least there will be no language barrier for me.
You should definitely go! :)
Les louages sont une option plus rapide et plus pratique que les trains si vous comptez faire le tour de la Tunisie, les trains c'est méga lents
@@Boubouchan1 And sometimes not very safe. The track bed is sometimes so incredible bad.
Travelling by train in Tunisia is definitely on my list. Such a fascinating country.
in my experience Tunisia is a indeed very chaotic in a lot of ways but the people are incredibly friendly and most of the time very eager to help, especially if youre a foreigner..
just dont expect everything to be a "Western" standard when it comes to reliability or punctuality...
If had one person try to sell me an item for more than it actually was and some locals that stood in line with me got SO ANGRY at the guy..
i only speak pidgin french but even i understood that they were embarrassed by his behaviour..
3 or 4 people spoke english and apologized for his behaviour profusely.
And talking about late trains..
Im German so I expect trains to be late as a standard 😂
Welcome to Tunisia 🇹🇳🤝 i am so happy
I've noticed this plenty of times in your travel videos, but am just getting around saying it. Your narrative is so captivating! You should write. And then write some more. Watching your videos and listening to you talk about the history of the places and your experiences is so enjoyable, so thank you!
your ability to connect with your viewers is unmatched!
What an amazing opening story. You told it so well. Thank you!
aww thank you!
Really enjoy the simplicity of your travel process and the richness of your storytelling
I am Tunisian grew up between tunis and Montreal and In a couple of days I am doing a solo trip in Tunisia ! Pretty stressed and excited for it and gonna watch all your Tunisia videos for tips 😁
I had to smile at how someone use to British Rail is overly satisfied when travelling on an african railway 😆
The colosseum of El Jem is amazing, looking forward to watching your video. I visited it earlier this year and I was literally the only foreign tourist there ! I loved Tunisia ❤
Well done Tom! Keep up the good work! Your videos are insightful and enriching thanks for sharing your challenges and adventures!
Thanks. Your postings are so stress relieving for me. You are calm. Helps me remain calm.
as a tunisian , i wannna say if anyone wants to visit tunisia feel free to reach out to me and ask for anything or any recommendations or advice you need !
i absolutely loved the video and the enthusiasm
Hello I may go to Tunisia. How can I get from enfidha airport to Tunis?By bus or like a local?
I just moved to Tunis a month ago and would like to explore the country in a more local way. Your video has been very helpful
I had been taking the train almost weekly in Tunisia more than ten years ago, as a student. I loved my trains trips, it was my preferable means of transport in Tunisia (more than the louage). I didn't feel unsafe, even as a girl. Though, I always took the first class and I never used (or thaught of using) the toilet in the train.
Yes there were some delays specially bcz of strikes and big accidents. Trains can be overloaded even in 1st class specially in holidays. But overall it was easy.
And back then, there were all new modern faster trains, I dont know the situation of those trains today. I still prefer the old ones if they took good care of them, hopefully. I really hope the situation of the railways in Tunisia gets better. As well as many other things.
What an adventure! And yes, your videos have absolutely made me want to visit Tunisia.
Every time I went to Tunisia I rented a car, It's way better experience to drive around the country and explore at your oun speed without waiting for public transport,
I loved every minute of Tunisia, such an amazing country ❤
Greetings from Libya.
Lol i'm now in Tunisia and took the train to Sousse. In second class 😅, not the most comfy experience but I enjoyed it, even without AC
Incredible video. Thanks so much for sharing! If you do end up spending a bit more time in El Djem, they have an incredible Roman Amphitheatre there that is more impressive than the Colosseum!
Great video Tom, incredible service from the railway staff in Tunis! I'd love to do more trips by rail...
Try this one! 😍
You've been surrounded by absolute angels, and you are so brave to navigate all of that. I could never!
Is Sfax where you encountered Karim?
Noooo the Karim arc features in a later country 👀
Love your evocative descriptions. Great video!
Thanks! :)
Amazing Video as always Tom, thanks a lot!
Good video. I travelled on this train from Sousse to el Jem. The train was quite comfortable but arrived late at Sousse.
Such an excellent post! Thank you for sharing your very unique journey!
Thank you 🥹
Love your storytelling and music choice to the footage. Its so calming and adds almost a meditative aspect to the video :D It really helps in romanticising the tips even more!
This makes me want to take this trip! Also, since we live in Germany, we are used to the train being late. Best to take a breath and go with the flow 😉 🚂
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Your videos encourages me to go out there and expereince new cultures. Im guite the scaredy cat so this helps a lot!
Always a pleasure to watch your videos!
Not gonna lie the trains in Tunisia are disastrous, we didn't invest a dime in the rail infrastructure nor the rolling stock in 30 years. Did you notice that they were painfully slow? It's because the rails are poorly maintained. Anyway I'm glad you had fun. Hope you visit again.
do you live in Tunisia ?
yea, it seems like Tunisia’s budget is more focused on healthcare and education since its independence, but hopefully, things will get better, Tunisia has so much potential!
@@suzukauzumaki7560 healtcare and education are in the same state. They deserve it. They cheered their "revolution" for the sake of themselfs profitering. They all wanted a piece of the pie.
@@bennourmedhsin2441 i was impresed by your observation and the word Invest.
great video! the food at the end looks incredible wow
Have a nice stay in Tunisia mate
As you are now in Tunisia try to learn tunisian arabic that's our mother tongue why not ❤️
I always love these types of videos, they never fail to be entertaining-and also entertaining, how consistently you end up facing such weird situations lmao
Great video! You really captured what it is like travelling solo through Tunisia. If you really wanted to cross Tunisia, take the train from Tunis to Gabes. It takes you all the way south in 7+ hours and is a real experience I can say
Would love to go back and do that next time!
Loved the video and narration! :) I had the exact same café car in egypt on the line between cairo and luxor and boy, was it in use!! (hoardes of guys smoking cigarettes and drinking beer), so you had the right hunch! I was lucky to be able to go there with an Egyptian lady who was my seat partner as a solo female traveler. Thinking about Tunisia next and of course will try the trains!
love your vlogs Tom. 1 tip: maybe slow down the narrative a bit as it might be hard to grasp for non-native speakers of English
This level of care and customer service for foreigners reminds me of places like Brazil and Colombia. They really want to make their country feel as comfortable and safe as possible
Another terrific video Tom!
Yes, I definitely want to visit Tunisia. We had a Tunisian exchange student live with us five years ago, and we loved her and her stories about Tunisia. No, I don’t want to take the train. I’m a soft, middle aged American, and my days of rough adventures are behind me.
I’m glad the Tunisians took good care of you, and I thoroughly enjoyed the video (as always).
Definitely loving your videos and has surely whet my appetite to visit this country.
Ferroequinologist: a train enthusiast. See also: Tom Thornton. 😂
I look forward to my appearance in the OED
thank you for visiting
I went from Tunis to El Jem and back in 2014 following the advice of the Man in Seat 61. Didn’t know trains in Tunisia were supposed to be dangerous!
The way the people at the ticket counters looked out for you reminds me of my great aunt's story. She was a solo traveller in Tunisia and her plane home got cancelled. The airport ticket counter when she got to it was a mess of people shouting, trying to reschedule their flights. She stood at the back and thought there was no way she would ever get to the counter, so she walked away to go buy something to eat. Lo and behold, 35 minutes later an employee ran up to her and said "Madame, you have to get on the plane, they are waiting for you". The ticket counter people had seen this solo female traveller at the back and found her on the list of the cancelled flight and rebooked her to the next flight without her having to ask.
Cracking video. And nice to see someone Vlogging travelling trains outside of the anglosphere, and their comfort zone. Was Sfax any good?
Lovely to hear about the kindness you got from locals. Recently I was in Morocco, travelling with an American woman I didn't know that well. She was gobsmacked by how kind, helpful and friendly everyone was as she'd heard she'd encounter distrust and active dislike. Everyone is kind (pretty much), I've found. Looking forward to your next adventure.
That was a really fun video and story and nicely presented. Thanks!!!
We did this 2 months ago. Quite the adventure
My mother and I traveled with a group through Tunesia, but due to schedule constraints we skipped the last few days on the beach and took a train from Gabès to Tunis by ourselves on Jan 1st, 2004. It may have been the same train cars back then. I had no problem getting tickets in French.
Funny story: on the first day, the tour guide asked me for some help to include a trip with Le Lézard Rouge, a museum railway, into the schedule, which worked out great.
Seeing this as a Tunisian who's experienced it all in our public transportation and to be specific the trains 😂 I feel for you. I gotta say I admire how optimistic you were all while going through all that despite the heat of summer but well you're quite lucky since it wasn't very crowded I remember how I once had to sit in those gaps with a door open sandwiched between people along with my family of four we had to literally sit on our own bags in that little space and it was summer 😂 We were in sfax and the destination was to Tozeur (now there are no trains to there however) and it was so hot 😂 everyone were very angry since we also waited for about 2h just to end up with no seats that's why I've been more or less traumatised from using the trains so I rarely did 😅
Haha thanks, it was a great trip for me :) and I definitely would not have survived the way you just described!
@@thornton I'm glad it was it means things are maybe improving for the better ! Your vid kinda got me wanting to go for such an adventure as well! Truly inspiring!
Had to stand on a journey from Tuunis to Suussa in a hot very crowded railcar (and not a real long train). At least I could not fall down.... That was the worst journey by train in Tunisia.
Louages are better and faster options for traveling across Tunisia
Really nice one, I've been considering a holiday in Tunis and around, and this encourages me even more
9:06 i wasss waitinggg for you to talk about the toilettt 😭😭
great video man, keep it going
I remember taking a metro train in Tunis years ago where people would open the doors with a valve in the roof whenever they felt like it
I've travelled to Tunisia about 10 years ago.
Welcome to Tunisia ❤❤❤
I definitely want to visit Sfax now thanks to your solo trip. I'd duplicate your mode of transport too! Thank you and well done!
How did this one slip by me? Can’t wait to catch up with this adventure! 🚂
Funny, 3 days ago i was also in Tunisia and ride alone with the train. It was one of the scariest things i did in my life. The train was delayed from Sousse for 5 hours and i arrived in Gabes nearly midnight. The ride was horrible but at one point, i tought i will made it and that made me really happy. Luckily my travel angency send me a car to Djerba. I arrived at the hotel at 3 AM and went to a saharatrip at 6 AM. I was so tired but also very delighted.
ok what was the scare part ?
@@monkeychief-nk7se the ride was very loud and shaky. Maybe it was more in my thoughts, that i should be scared. Alone in the middle of the night in an foreign country. But at one point i was rethinking it and nothing bad will happen, that was a overwhelming feeling. The stuff on the train and the locals were also friendly
@@lorenzgrimm49 tunisia is safe , but its normal to feel insecure in these kind of situation , hope u enjoy ur trip
When I saw the episode where you took the ferry there! I wanted to go. An amazing country. I love your videos
I visited Tunisia 30 years ago, and then I spoke fluent French and a bit of the wrong dialect of Arabic. The tourist guides have warnings about trains but a local told me that they're really about 1st class in the international trains, particularly going to Algeria. I never had any problems. I only rode Tunis to El Jem; I don't think the other lines carried tourists, then.
Wonderful and good sharing Tom 🎉 i still have plenty balkan country to visit next year but this sharing made my mind 2026 might be the year 😂
What an adventure!
wish i could solo trip around tunisia too.. but as a woman and after my solo trip across some other countries around the region i'm probably not brave enough to do that again. in any case, always a treat to see there's a video from you on my feed, tom :D
which countries where that ?
@@monkeychief-nk7se morocco and algeria. had actually planned a short trip to tunisia, but a thing happened and i decided to go home instead. mind you, my solo trip before that to egypt was not without incident either... so i am all out of bravery to travel around the region on my own.
@@dwn2967Ah i understand where you comming from ,i just wanted to say that Tunisia isnt like the countries you mentioned before.
Great storytelling
Love watching your adventure!
"My train has no doors."
"Then how does it smell?"
"Whu... what?"
"Never mind."
Nice story. Nice people.
I've been to Algeria quite a lot and once tried to take the train from Algiers to Oran. Couldn't because the drivers were in strike.
The ticket number of “4205” seems to suggest quite a few are sold. Assuming they have been numbered from “1” of course
The ladies selling tickets were so nice!!! 🥲 and the food at the end looked amazing 😊
Tunisians are super friendly ppl
Hope you did see the archelogical museum as well, its included in the arena ticket
Only did sousse-El djem-tunis on this line, but the trains were on time all the time. The crazyest experience for me was taking a minibus
and getting the ticket for that at kairouan minibus terminal
My first open door trains were in Hungary on regional trains. Last time was in morocco. So I know how you are feeling.
I am about 95% sure the first train carriage is originally run for MÁV (Hungarian State Railways) and I used to travel on the type when I was a kid.